3 March 2026
By Vicki M. Young
U.S. President Donald Trump‘s unprecedented global reciprocal tariff policy under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), now deemed illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court, has raised a lot of uncertainty in the footwear sector.
That uncertainty ranges from what happens to reciprocal trade deals to how much higher new duties might climb and even how do shoe importers get their refunds for illegal tariffs already paid.